Clipped From The Mercury
By EDITH GWYNN HOLLYWOOD, Oct. 4 — Warners are flirting with Talullah Bankhead again to "come on over and play.” Play the starring role in the picture “Serenade" that is! This James Cain best-seller k has to be scrubbed and D.D.T.’d before before it was fit for movie audiences, who also read, wre imagine. But you'd never know it from censor jl rules. Anyway, || this opus has been 1 on the Warner * agenda for years. It was even intended intended as an A n n e Sheridan s t a r r e r at one time—in the dear, dead long ago . . . Buff Cobb is thinking out loud about tossing a suit for back alimony at her ex, Bill Eythe, once a featured movie player, player, now more active with the stage Hollywood Talullah Bankhead . . . Geòrgie Raft, who postponed his scheduled gall-stone operation a few days, is due for the carving but any minute. His chum, Mack (“The Killer”) Gray says that with George “they’re gold-stones.” He could be right . . . Barbara Hale, who got the break 93847589 gals pray for in Columbia’s “Jolson Sings Again” has bids from three other major studios who want to borrow her. It always happens when a chick makes a click . . . Aline McMahon will be featured in “The Eagle and the Hawk” with Burt Lancaster. * * # SKIP HOMEIER (he changed it from Skippy when he became 18) canceled his sophomore session session at UCLA until Spring to do his role in “The Gunfighter” with Gregory Peck at 20th-Fox. In it, he has a duel to the death with Peck—an honor heretofore enjoyed (?) only by Jennifer Jones in “Duel in the Sun” , . , Add useless information (and we’re full of it!): Primo Carnera, Carnera, who towers just slightly above Pikes Peak, has a kid sister, sister, Gloria who is only six foot 3 and about to marry a millionaire millionaire named H. Callap. Carnera Carnera is reported broke. * * *
